England star and Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney headlines a short list of A-list soccer players considering a move to, or being wooed by teams in, Major League Soccer.

Los Angeles Football Club, which starts playing in the league in 2018 reportedly is pursing Rooney, and the timing may be just right for a move.

Rooney has struggled at Manchester United recently. He's out of the starting XI and apparently is in manager Jose Mourinho's dog house.

Rooney is under contract with the Premier League club until 2019.

At 31, he isn't necessarily on the downslope in his abilities and a move to a new franchise in a big market, with a potentially lucrative Designated Player contract, might cure what ails him.

LAFC reportedly is looking at a handful of international A-list players, including Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas, Luca Modric of Real Madrid and Javier Hernandez, the Mexico international.

"For a player of stature, a European star let's say, we would want them to view this as the first day of the rest of their life, not as just the end of their playing career," LAFC president Tom Penn told ESPN.

Penn, one of the team's owners and an ESPN NBA analyst, should be familiar to Portland sports fans. He was an executive in several roles with for four seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers and is an expert on salary caps and collective bargaining agreements.

Elsewhere, Rooney's Manchester United teammate Bastian Schweinsteiger is reportedly being courted by the Chicago Fire.

Several outlets are reporting that the Fire and the German midfielder, 32, are talking and apparently, head coach Veljko Paunovic met with the German midfielder near his home last Friday.